 To sweeten the beverage a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup, and the company alternately nibbled and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement was introduced by a shrewd and economic old lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Side 5561820Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 478 sider
...by their Adroitness in replenishing this pot from a. huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat...the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup—and the company alternately nibbled and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement was introduced... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1860 - 606 sider
...themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat...laid beside each cup, and the company alternately nibbed and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement was introduced by a shrewd and economic... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1861 - 446 sider
...in replenishing this pot, from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies4 of these degenerate days sweat merely to look at it....of sugar was laid beside each cup, and the company alternately5 nibbled and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement was introduced by a shrewd... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 sider
...themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat merely to look at it. 25 To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup — and the company alternately... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1864 - 450 sider
...replenishing this pot, from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies 4 of these degenerate days sweat merely to look at it....which was, to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table, by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth. 1 Salmon (sam'imm).—'Dclf,... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 434 sider
...themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat...which was, to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth — an ingenious... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 sider
...themselves by their adroitness in re[leuishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat...which was, to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth—an ingenious... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 sider
...themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat...which was to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table, by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth — an ingenious... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1870 - 444 sider
...by their adroitness in replenishing this pot, from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies " of these degenerate days sweat merely to look at it. 6. To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid beside 1 Itf con test' a ble, that can not 4 Fan'... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1871 - 532 sider
...themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat...and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement wag introduced by a shrewd and economic old lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over the... | |
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